NEW YORK (AP) – Lauren Bacall has a few unkind words to say about Tom Cruise.

In an interview in the Aug. 8 issue of Time magazine, now on newsstands, the 80-year-old actress says, “When you talk about a great actor, you’re not talking about Tom Cruise.”

“His whole behavior is so shocking,” she says. “It’s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it’s kind of a sickness.”

Bacall was alluding to Cruise’s displays of emotion and public courting of Katie Holmes in the weeks leading up to the release of his new film, “War of the Worlds.” Cruise and Holmes became engaged in June after he proposed at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Last fall, Bacall made similar remarks about Cruise’s ex-wife Nicole Kidman, her co-star in “Birth.” While promoting the movie, Bacall became irritated when an interviewer described Kidman as “a legend.”

“She’s not a legend,” Bacall said. “She can’t be a legend at whatever age she is. … You have to be older.”

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) – It didn’t come cheap, but an anonymous bidder now owns a piece of Jedi history.

A light saber used by Mark Hamill when he played Luke Skywalker in the original “Star Wars” sold for $200,600 Friday in an auction of movie props and costumes, said Joe Maddalena, president of Profiles in History, which held the auction.

Other items included a light saber used by the character Darth Vader in “Star Wars,” which fetched $118,000; a leather jacket worn by Harrison Ford in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” which brought in $94,400; and a leather jacket worn by Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Terminator,” which went for $41,300.

The “Star Wars” items were offered by Gary Kurtz, producer of the first two movies, who put up 75 pieces from his private collection to raise money to open a public film archive.

Prices included an 18 percent fee charged by the auction house.

Identities of the buyers weren’t released.

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On the Net:

http://www.profilesinhistory.com/

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Seann William Scott has made peace with the notion that he may be a dolt on screen forever.

Scott, who embodied the blockhead jock Steve Stifler in the “American Pie” movies, the nitwit in 2000’s “Dude, Where’s My Car?” and the sex-crazed buffoon in “Road Trip,” is now in “The Dukes of Hazzard” movie, playing Bo Duke.

“Most of the comedies will have some similarity because most comedy roles are about guys that aren’t that bright,” Scott told the San Francisco Chronicle in Sunday’s editions. “Every once in a while you’ll get a “Sideways,’ not that I’m doing it.”

Scott, 28, was still working at Home Depot in Los Angeles when he was cast as Stifler in “American Pie.”

He said he’d rather be a “fly on the wall than the party guy. I don’t think anybody really cares what I’m going to do outside my house. I moved to L.A. to act. I don’t have time to waste or time to make friends out there.”

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NEW YORK (AP) – Billy Bob Thornton is happy for his ex-wife Angelina Jolie, who adopted an orphaned baby girl, Zahara Marley, in Ethiopia last month.

“I love it. I knew for a while that she was going to adopt,” Thornton tells People magazine in its Aug. 8 issue. “She cares so much for kids who don’t have anything.”

“Any kid Angelina adopts is going to have a great mother,” adds Thornton, who stars in the new movie “Bad News Bears.”

Before their split in 2002, Jolie and Thornton adopted a baby boy, Maddox, from Cambodia. Jolie is often seen carrying Maddox in her arms.

Thornton says he doesn’t get to see Jolie and Maddox much.

“She’s all over the world and I live in California,” he says. “I see them every time she comes to town, but that hasn’t been very often in the last couple of years.”

Brad Pitt, Jolie’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” co-star, accompanied the actress when she picked up her daughter.

“Nothing surprises me,” Thornton said.